Hello All,
This morning MerryLynn and I hit the field early (5A.M.) and headed for the
WWRdelta after finding out that the delta area was exposed at 337.6 feet.
340.0 feet is full pool. We also visited Casey Pond, McNary NWR, HQ display
ponds, the Peninsula HMU and Iowa Beef slop ponds. We saw the following
species..........

WWRdelta
Killdeer...........11
Long-billed Dowitcher....16
Western Sandpiper............113
Least Sandpiper................8
Bairds Sandpiper..............4
Greater Yellowlegs.........17
Lesser Yellowlegs...........3
Spotted Sandpiper............4
Wilson's Snipe..................5
Glaucous-winged Gull.....1 ad.
Am.White Pelican............35
Caspian Terns...................19

Iowa Beef/Tyson slop ponds

Wilson's Phalaropes..................18
Red-necked Phalaropes.............15
American Avocet.......................18
Black-necked Stilts....................13

Peninsula HMU

Lesser Yellowlegs...................14
Red-necked Phalarope..............1
American White Pelican...........42

Casey Pond

BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER....1ad.
Semipalmated Plover..................1
Western Sandpiper.......................3

Well that is it for this sun-filled, warm, beautiful day.
Later Mike



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Mike & MerryLynn Denny
1354 S. E. Central Ave.
College Place, WA 99324
509.529.0080 (h)

IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN BIRDING, YOU HAVEN'T LIVED!
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